"Nature has placed in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth." - Cicero

"The word listen contains the same letters as the word silent." - Alfred Brendel

Many of the current cases stem from the outbreak in South Carolina, which the administration told Mother Jones they weren’t especially concerned about in December.

Deadpan ironic face "Let's hope the clocks not in America of trump will try and shut it down to get more time."

On Tuesday parts of the Southern Hemisphere were graced by a “ring of fire” solar eclipse—a celestial marvel that occurs when the moon is at or near its farthest distance from Earth and passes directly between our planet and the sun. spklr.io/6008DSp8q 📸: ESA/Royal Observatory of Belgium

A highly educated global society would not have created most of the problems and seemingly insurmountable challenges we face today. In the long run, education is the key to our survival. The willful lack of knowledge and wisdom will be our demise.

"What the world has to eradicate is fear and ignorance." - Jan Masaryk

Judges across the U.S. have handed down thousands of rulings against the Trump administration for illegal detentions of immigrants. Regardless, ICE has kept arresting and jailing unprecedented numbers of people.

"What happens in Antarctica doesn’t stay in Antarctica.”

“[People in the plastics industry] are very happy for us to look at ourselves and at each other, and not look at them,” says @bethgardiner.bsky.social, author of "Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash our Future."

Not for nothing but if you have the resources to release the alien files, guess what else you have the resources to release?

Extreme heat lab: enduring the climate of the future

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate

The Psychopath - "Connections, not friendships, are very important to a psychopath. Psychopaths have an “insatiable appetite for power and control,” Each person with whom he/she connects serves his/her needs in different ways and must validate his/her outsized sense of self." ~ Psychology Today

#photography #unedited

Your 'moment of doom' for Jan. 29, 2026 ~ The other overshoot. "Without action to draw down atmospheric carbon, the climate system will likely move into an era of accelerated warming that may be impossible to halt. Overshoot will be permanent." e360.yale.edu/features/1.5...

“When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives.” — Robert A. Heinlein

Researchers sequenced the genomes of tumors from almost 500 domestic cats and found remarkable parallels with human and dog cancers

In the span of just six weeks between December and January, six people died while detained by ICE in Texas — three of them at Camp East Montana. Detention facilities are seeing more overcrowding and understaffing as the Trump administration ramps up enforcement.

"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews (wait'll ya experience the midterms...) #AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

Astronomers are racing to understand mysterious ancient objects that pepper James Webb Space Telescope images

Renewables for the win(d)! #greenenergy #reciprocity #sustainability

Europe Must Prepare for 3 °C Warming by 2100, Warns Scientific Board A major scientific report released on February 17, 2026 warns that Europe must prepare for the possibility of up to 3 °C of global warming by the end of the century, far above the 1.5 °C goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement. The…

Pressured by MAGAt state AGs, the Federal Judicial Center, the federal agency that advises SCOTUS and federal judges on scientific and technical matters, has deleted its content on climate change in its entirety as multiple climate cases wind through the courts. www.propublica.org/article/fede...

100 years of January sea surface temperature anomalies. Note the long-term warming and patterns of climate variability (e.g., El Niño/La Niña). Data from NOAA ERSSTv5 at psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” — Carl Sagan

"Reuters’ new report is the most comprehensive examination to date of the administration’s routine violation of the law with respect to immigration enforcement. But the extent to which federal immigration agencies have violated the law under Trump is hardly new information." #lawlessness

really good discussion on the anti science repeal of the endangerment finding & how this may lead to higher energy prices & more air pollution for us all

Trump is trying to synchronize his inevitable death with the end of democracy. Nothing would please him or his enablers more than watching the country descend further into a society ignorant of science.

Some call it the ‘Doomsday Glacier,’ a vast expanse of Antarctic ice roughly the size of Florida. As temperatures rise, the Thwaites Glacier is melting fast and threatens to raise global sea levels. https://to.pbs.org/4q20O7v

Greenhouse gas concentrations keep rising. The planet keeps warming in response. And that added heat shows up in the extremes and impacts. This is really basic stuff. Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

"... political orientation has become one of the most powerful predictors of environmental concern in nationally representative samples of the US general public (Guber, 2013, Hamilton et al., 2010, Konisky, 2008, Konisky et al., 2008)." 🌎

EPA’s final* ruling on CO2 www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

What amazes me most isn't that scientifically illiterate people hold positions of enormous power and influence, but that their cult leader in the 21st century received even a single vote outside his immediate family. Ignorance has hobbled a work in progress, an idea, these so-called United States.

Being reckless with his own health shouldn't qualify him to be reckless with ours. He makes paranoia and misinformation feel like credibility for far too many. Yet another way they purposefully take down of our country. #Pinks

Must watch today with Father David! ⬇️⬇️ He is on point with his critique of the Trump administration and clowns 🤡 that are ruining the country! He very accurately describes the complete incompetence and corruption of this entire administration! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/iq9s0...

"Our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." - Dalai Lama #quote

So highlight the science - WMO 🔴Past 11 years have been 11 warmest on record 🔴Past 3 years (2023-2025) are the warmest years in all 8 datasets 🔴Consolidated 3 year avg 2023-2025 temperature is 1.48°C 🔴Temporary cooling by La Niña doesn't reverse long-term trend 🔴Ocean warming continues unabated

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a “cult,” almost in same breath. The distorting effect of fossil fuel’s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

“Humanity now faces perhaps the biggest choice it will ever make: continue down the road to a future devastated by climate change, dwindling nature, degraded land, and polluted air, land and water, or change direction to secure a healthy planet, healthy people and prosperity for all.” (UN Sept 2025)

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

"Warnings of ‘Permanent’ Damage to People and Planet as Trump EPA Set to Repeal Key Climate Rule" by @brettwilkins.bsky.social for @commondreams.org: www.commondreams.org/news/warning...

"Two out of every five species could be lost by the end of the century." Kathleen Dean Moore www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ilT...

Instilling fear is essentially all the U.S. government is capable of now.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks

Unlike politicians and oil companies, thermometers do not lie cribb.substack.com/p/unlike-pol...